[governance] Fw: [cs-coord] On whether CSCG should be engaged on WEF's initiative (was Re: Timetable re WEF)

[Mawaki Chango]

Dear All,

In light of the position taken by the JNC below, please be advised that if
the CSCG go forward with the decision to participate in this WEF process
--which still is being considered but not adopted by the group yet-- the
formal announcement of nominees, if and when that occurs, will have to
include the acknowledgement that "although JNC is a member of CSCG, JNC has
opted out from participation in this particular selection process" (or
something along those lines.)

We were set to proceed roughly by COB today, UTC time, if everything goes
as planned. So if you have any strong views about this, I'd invite you to
post them now, maybe until tonight. Thank you.

Mawaki



On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> For transparency on a key position taken by JNC in CSCG, and with the
> idea to possibly also inspire discussion on this question in IGC and
> BestBits which doesn't seem to started here yet...
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> co-convenor, Just Net Coalition
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 12:54:39 +0200
> From: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
> Subject: [cs-coord] On whether CSCG should be engaged on WEF's
> initiative (was Re: Timetable re WEF)
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:13:54 +1000
> "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>
> > Tuesday September 2 ASAP after 8am - report to member groups and open
> > discussion focussed on whether we should participate and if so under
> > what conditions.
>
> After some very intense discussions, the current JNC view is that CSCG
> as such should not be doing selections for WEF's initiative (whatever it
> ends up being called.) The reasoning is as follows:
>
> * It is fine for WEF or any other business group or anyone really to
>   create an initiative in any way they like, with themselves in the
>   steering seat, as long as they don't explicitly or implicitly claim
>   it to be a multistakeholder initiative.
>
> * Changing the name of WEF's "Netmundial Initiative" to something else,
>   for example the idea of "Net World" that WEF mentioned, it a good and
>   positive step but that's not likely to result in a very deep and
>   profound change in how the initiative is perceived and framed now that
>   it has made a big splash under the "Netmundial Initiative" name,
>   unless it is also clearly rebranded as an initiative of a business
>   community as opposed to a multistakeholder initiative. An initiative
>   of a business community can of course still invite some civil society
>   people to participate in a sense of advising them, that is perfectly
>   fine. They can invite some whom they already know, and/or if they then
>   still have gaps, I would in my personal capacity be happy to make
>   suggestions about who else they might consider to invite.
>
> * However CSCG should not be involved in making selections of civil
>   society representatives for a "steering committee" which really has
>   only an advisory capacity while the real decision making authority
>   remains in the hands of WEF and its business members. This is in
>   contrast the (real) NetMundial process where it was the
>   multistakeholder committees which had the decision-making authority
>   to steer the process. We should not involve CSCG in a way would
>   contribute to creating the false impression of WEF's initiative being
>   the same kind of multistakeholder activity.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>
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